This is my favorite shot from the Gorodets living history festival in 2006. It always makes me think I should title it, “No shit, there I was…” The guys fighting are mainly college students who do this as a hobby. It’s live steel, dull weapons but otherwise real. My husband joined the group and got to find out exactly how authentic Viking re-enactment combat can be when he took an axe direct to his shin bone and had to be carried out of the woods on his shield.
The really annoying thing about that… I mean other than the four months following of bringing him beer and coffee while be propped up his cast… was that we’d just watched “300” before he went out to the event. And I quoted Queen Gorgo to him as he went out the door, “Come back with your shield, or on it!”. Sigh. And now he’ll never, ever let go of the bloodstained thing.
Gorodets Viking Festival – 2006 – Images by Kira Hagen
Kira
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Kira
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Tim
5 Aug 2009The picture is great, & so is your sense of humor!
(I’m planning a series of lessons for my Upper El students this term on Human Migrations, & plan to use this picture to give them a mental impression of the Viking experience in Russia. Thanks for sharing!)
Tim
5 Aug 2009The picture is great, & so is your sense of humor!
(I’m planning a series of lessons for my Upper El students this term on Human Migrations, & plan to use this picture to give them a mental impression of the Viking experience in Russia. Thanks for sharing!)